Bridge Street redux

Traffic was back up to Chadwick Bank last night so a 2 mile queue affecting a bunch of people who might not even be heading into town and past the lights. They weren't working on it yesterday when they were set up and they weren't working on it last night so we had a traffic light system up protecting... well nothing.

I travelled the 12-14 miles around (instead of 2-3) and it only took 10 minutes more then my normal travel time, however that will change as everyone decides to go that way instead of sitting in the queue. The sticking points being the turn-off to Ombersley and the turn out of Holt Heath, which just weren't designed with the level of traffic in mind.

The workers were there this morning though and kudos to them they had someone manually setting the traffic lights on Bridge Street and I fairly whizzed through, what the chances that they'll be doing it tonight though I don't know and besides all that'll do is help the traffic from Hartlebury Road out.

Oh and the previous lot of works did patch the holes on the Worcester Road entrance past OGL, well sort of, kind of; it's less likely to take your wheels off now, but it's still bumpy as hell. Best bit is that it's damp, it was damp yesterday and it's damp today and that suggests they've got a leak which means they're going to dig it up again.

[Additional -What fun sitting on the bridge. The traffic came through as normal from the town and cleared our set of lights. They turned green and one car set off around the cones at which point they turned red again; no joke, no exaggeration.

After the standard wait they changed again at which point the learner driver at the front stalled slightly, nevertheless a few cars got out until a big flashing maintenance truck decided to turn into Raven Street and had to take up both lanes to do it, by the time he'd got out of the way we were back to red.

Waiting and the last of the cars cleared our end and then pulled into their left to allow room for the wailing ambulance to get past, our lights turned green and two cars managed to get through before the ambulance got up to them; got a reprieve in that at this point I finally managed to get past the damn things.

Coming back we've got a built-in delay point in York Street as all the traffic is turning left on the wrong-side of the road and the longer vehicles can't turn left without two lanes at normal times, and no-one seems to be enforcing any form of parking restriction opposite the bus-stop so yes once again traffic is queuing in the left-hand lane to drive past the lights and cones blocking it because they can't wait in the right-hand lane and yes once again if a bus dares to stop in the designated bus-stop wider vehicles are stuck regardless of permissions to move.

It's a farce.]